Convos with Larry: Talking Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championships with Jeff Shaver

That is Conversations with Larry, our featured Interview is Jeff Shaver, very long time observer of the game, life-long runner and racer and satirist.

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Conversations with Larry

Speaking Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championships with Jeff Shaver

Jeff Shaver is a long-time good friend, life lengthy runner and eager observer of the game. I’ve recognized Jeff for the

previous 35 years.

Jeff Shaver hung with me in Beijing 2008, as he accompanied me as an unoffiicial assistant for the RunningNetwork within the Bejing Olympics.

Jeff and I spent a while chatting on the observe & subject occasions and developing with predictions which are certain to bother somebody. Jeff Shaver is possessed of ascerbic wit, a eager mind, and an consideration to element that retains something he says fairly amusing.

Charles Alexander, Jeff Shaver with Grant Fisher, in a selfie, 2024 Olympic Trials, from Charles Alexander assortment

I recall that Jeff ran a lot of the Beijing marathon course. He was fairly impressed with the late Sammy Wanjiru.

Jeff Shaver is a member of the HOKA Aggies. From 1990-1996, this author held the watch and offered pithy feedback for a gaggle who met every Tuesday at Foothill Neighborhood Faculty. I’ve to confess that it was one in every of my favourite occasions of my life.

Particular due to Jeff Shaver!

Jeff Shaver had talked about that he hoped that the ladies’s NCAA steeple champion medal in Zurich, that’s Doris Lemngole.

Please additionally take a look at our ideas on Shelby Houlihan, Making Eugene Higher, Choices for Olympic Trials, What’s your favourite occasion upcoming in Tokyo? and How you can Juggle Marathon and Males’s 1,500 meters viewing!

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Particular due to Mike Deering, an unique The Shoe Addicts, who does the modifying and manufacturing for all RunBlogRun podcasts!

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement within the sport of athletics. Larry has skilled the game as an athlete, coach, journal writer, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was revealed in RW in 1983. Larry has revealed a number of magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. model of Spikes journal. He at the moment manages the content material and advertising improvement of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his each day pilgrimage with the game, Larry says: “I’ve to confess, I really like touring to far-off meets, writing concerning the sport I really like, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, essentially the most of something I’ve ever achieved, besides, possibly working itself.” Additionally does some updates for BBC Sports activities at key occasions, which he actually enjoys.

Theme track: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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